Las tablas de calendario en el manuscrito árabe medievalLa tabla de códigos ('alāmāt) de la Risāla kāfiyat al-sayb fī-l-'amal bi-l-ğayb de 'Izz al-Dīn b. Mas'ūd (795/1392)
ISSN: 0719-2215, 0719-689X
Datum der Publikation: 2022
Nummer: 22
Seiten: 8-15
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Revista Chilena de Estudios Medievales
Zusammenfassung
The table format is used in the medieval Arabic manuscript to display data in texts of geography, medicine, astronomy, astrology. Calendar tables constitute a specific category to which the table of madhal (‘entry’) or 'alamat (‘codes’) belongs. This type of table is used to determine which day of the week starts any month of any Arabic year. The present article analyzes the context of the table of madhal or 'alamat preserved in the Risala kafiyat al-sayb fi-l-'amal bi-l-gayb (Compendium on the Use of the Sine Quadrant) by the qadi al-qudat al-maliki 'Izz al-Din b. Mas'ud (Cairo, 795/1392). We conclude that this kind of expression of contents was maintained throughout the centuries by textual tradition, since this type of table is not strictly necessary to convert dates from one calendar to another